A K a-Band Power Amplifier Based on the Traveling-Wave Power-Dividing/Combining Slotted-Waveguide Circuit

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 633-639

  Jiang, Xin ^a   Ortiz, Sean C ^b,c   Mortazawi, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

K a band; Power combining; Traveling wave; Waveguide to microstrip transition

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FABRICATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAT SINKS; MICROSTRIP LINES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDES;

KA-BAND; POWER COMBINING; TRAVELING WAVE; WAVEGUIDE TO MICROSTRIP TRANSITION;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 1342329282     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.822026     Document Type: Article

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